Noel,

Thanks for your info. I'm doing something very similar to this that Vlad suggested to me in an earlier note on this thread.

Thanks

>Hi Elgin,
>
>I ask the same question before and "Mark McCasland" gave me an idea
>about this. Thanks to him.
>
>Here's his reply to my message:
>
>I have an application object, goApp, that has a DoForm method. In my apps I almost always start a form with goApp.DoForm('myform', 'formname')
>
>The MYFORM is the actual .SCX file name of the form. The FORMNAME is the value of the NAME property of the form. If I pass the FORMNAME parameter, my DOFORM method just activates the form if it exists. If the form is not already instanciated, I just issue a DO FORM (MYFORM)
>
>If I do NOT pass the second parameter, then I open multiple instances of the form. I loop through the forms collection to see if FORMNAME exists.
>
>

>lparameter tcForm, tcFormName
>local llFound, i
>llFound = .f.
>i = 0
>if !empty(tcFormName)
>   for i = 1 to _screen.formcount
>      if upper(_screen.forms(i).name) = tcFormName
>         llFound = .t.
>         exit
>      endif
>   endfor
>endif
>if llFound
>   _screen.forms(i).Show()
>else
>   do form (tcForm)
>endif
>

>
>Hope this help.
>
>Noel